Webinar: Green Touring

For many people, tours offer the only means to experience theatre, dance and performance in their local area. Given the increasing emphasis and cultural value of touring artistic work - and the resulting environmental impact - there is a need to develop a more sustainable model that embraces environmental practice.

This webinar explores what climate change means for tours, and how touring organisations can develop their environmental practice through developing a collaborative approach with critical partners across the touring supply chain. Using examples from the sector, we show you the benefits of adopting an environmentally conscientious approach to your tours.

Structure of the session

Context: what does touring mean for climate and the environment - what are the impacts, challenges and opportunities?

Practice: an overview of environmental practice including measuring and managing impacts, route planning, production and materials, travel, logistics and stakeholder engagement.

Examples: what good practice is happening within the sector, and what benefits has it brought?

Support: what resources are available to develop your green touring practice?

Q+A

Speakers

Lucy Latham, Julie's Bicycle

Louise Allen, New Adventures

About New Adventures

Pioneering and multi-award-winning, New Adventures is at the forefront of contemporary dance, touring to more UK and international venues and giving more performances each year than any other UK dance company. Re:Bourne, the charitable arm of New Adventures, invests in the future of dance and is a crucial mechanism for finding and nurturing the next generation of dancers and choreographers.

This year, New Adventures have been working with Julie’s Bicycle, pioneering a new approach to sustainable touring and helping co-develop the new Creative Green Touring certification. New Adventures are piloting this work with their UK Tour of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake running from September 2018 – May 2019, which includes 23 tour dates.

Please note that we encountered some technical difficulties with audio during the recording of this webinar. We would recommend that you watch using closed captions for the first portion of the recording, and skip ahead where prompted.

Part of a series of webinars aimed at supporting Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisations in embedding environmental sustainability into their practice.

Delivered in partnership with Arts Council England as part of their Environmental Programme to National Portfolio Organisations 2018-22.

Julie's Bicycle is holding two new webinars on environmental reporting for the 2018-22 Arts Council England National Portfolio. These online sessions will provide you with the know-how to complete your environmental reporting requirements. 27th March & 3rd April 2019.

Sustaining Great Art and Culture: Environmental Report 2017/18 presents key findings from the Arts Council England Environmental Reporting programme, which reflect financial savings of £16.5 million since the programme began.

Accelerator is a new strand of work within the pioneer Arts Council England Environmental Programme, recruiting two Cohorts of up to ten organisations to work with Julie’s Bicycle to advance their sustainable practice.